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‘And the nominees are…’

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The nominees for the 95th Academy Awards are in: 54 movies competing in 23 categories. The headlines already belong to the genre-smashing Everything Everywhere...

The Sundance Film Festival comes to Colorado

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It’s going to be shorter this year, but it’s also coming a lot closer to home: The 2021 Sundance Film Festival is going virtual....

Turning rebellion into money

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What is it about messianic men and the chaos they cause? They are almost always false prophets, yet time and time again, we fall...

The problem with pulling your punches

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When Wonder Woman sailed into theaters this summer, coolly breaking superhero box office record after box office record, it was no surprise that curious...

Illuminating content

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Dear incoming film students, take a moment to learn from those who came before you, and please heed Derek Cianfrance’s advice: “Be where you...

Home Viewing: Melissa Tamminga on ‘Stories We Tell’

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About halfway through Sarah Polley’s 2013 documentary Stories We Tell, Michael Polley turns to his daughter and asked, “What is this documentary about?” Well, it’s...

Me and my pal Adolf

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Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a good little Nazi. Jojo’s only 10 years old, but his brown shirt is spiffy, his red arm badge is on...

Changing the face of cinema

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Remember those old movies? The ones where a couple drives down the road, only they aren’t driving, they’re sitting in a car on some studio lot. And that’s not a road behind them; it’s a rear projection of road. Looks fake doesn’t it...

Here’s to the ones who dream

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The city of Los Angeles is home to a million stories, all of them different, many of them sad. They don’t always start out...

In lieu of a theatrical experience: Summer edition

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This was the weekend we were waiting for: A return to movie theaters in the time of coronavirus. Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster, Tenet, was...

He’s not a bad guy; he’s just a little clingy

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Life’s pretty good for Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman). It’s been six years since the two unmasked the...

The past and present collide in ‘Hell or High Water’

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W hen it comes to movie genres, none are as distinctly American as the Western and Film Noir. The Western, populated by cowboys, Native Americans...